Mafia increasingly targets refugees at Greek camps – report

‘Refugees in Greek camps are under increased risk of being engaged in prostitution, drug and human trafficking by Greek and Albanian mafia, says a report by the Observer issued a week after a report exposing sexual abuse in overcrowded camps.
There are about 58,000 refugees in Greece and all of them are potential targets for mafia gangs, The Observer reports citing accounts of asylum seekers and aid workers at the camps.
“I never knew a thing about drugs and now I am doing drugs. This camp is horrid. We live like animals in tents in burning heat,” a 17-year-old Syrian youth detained in a camp, based in an old toilet-roll factory outside Thessaloniki, said.’
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